The Best Episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation Season 4

Stardate: 44001.4. Riker must pull out all the stops in order to save Earth from a Borg invasion being lead by none other than Locutus - otherwise known as Captain Jean-Luc Picard.

Director: Cliff Bole

Writer: Michael Piller

Stardate 44012.3. Picard meets with his older brother in France, and contemplates resigning his Starfleet commission after his ordeal with the Borg. Worf's adoptive parents spend time with their son on the Enterprise, and succeed in embarrassing him in front of his crewmates.

Director: Les Landau

Writer: Ronald D. Moore

Stardate: 44085.7 While escorting a seriously ill boy to the closest Federation Starbase for treatment, Data mysteriously takes control of the Enterprise and takes it to a distant planet. He learns that his creator has summoned him for an important meeting that could change his life. However, Dr. Soong unknowingly summoned Data's twin brother Lore, into the bargain.

Director: Rob Bowman

Writer: Rick Berman

Stardate: 44143.7. A custody battle between Picard and a child's adoptive father arises when a boy showing evidence of abuse is discovered.

Director: Gabrielle Beaumont

Writer: Jeri Taylor, Ralph Phillips

Stardate: 44161.2. Dr. Crusher begins to question her sanity when members of the crew start disappearing one by one, and all evidence of their existence is erased.

Director: Cliff Bole

Writer: Lee Sheldon

Stardate: 44215.2. The Enterprise is caught in the middle of a civil war when they encounter Tasha Yar's long-lost younger sister, Ishara.

Director: Robert Scheerer

Writer: Joe Menosky

Stardate: 44246.3. Picard is asked to choose between two candidates to succeed the current Chancellor of the Klingon High Council as the new ruler of the Empire. Worf is disturbed by unexpected news when he is paid a visit by his former lover.

Director: Jonathan Frakes

Writer: Brannon Braga, Thomas Perry, Ronald D. Moore

Stardate: 44286.5. Riker awakens one morning to discover he is suddenly 16 years in the future as the captain of the Enterprise, and negotiating a peace treaty with the Romulans with no recollection of how he arrived at that point in time, or of any recent events.

Director: Les Landau

Writer: J. Larry Carroll, David Bennett Carren

Stardate: 44307.3. Wesley must keep Captain Picard alive on the eve of his entrance exam to Starfleet Academy when their shuttle crashes on a barren moon.

Director: Corey Allen

Writer: Jeri Taylor

Stardate: 44356.9. Troi loses her empathic abilities when the Enterprise is caught in the gravitational pull of a black hole.

Director: Chip Chalmers

Writer: Hilary Bader

Stardate: 44356.9. A Vulcan Ambassador being escorted by the Enterprise starts exhibiting suspicious behavior. Miles O'Brien marries his fiancée, Keiko Ishikawa in Ten-Forward.

Director: Robert Wiemer

Writer: Ronald D. Moore

Stardate: 44429.6. When the Cardassians start re-arming themselves, a Federation Captain takes it upon himself to remove a potential threat before it escalated. Now, Picard must fight for the Cardassians and stop the renegade from slaughtering innocents.

Director: Chip Chalmers

Writer: Jeri Taylor, Stuart Charno, Sara B. Cooper

Stardate: 44474.5. The crew of the Enterprise must defend the planet Ventax from a mythological Devil who re-appears when a 1000 year long era of peace comes to an end.

Director: Tom Benko

Writer: Philip LaZebnik

Stardate: 44502.7. Picard orders a secret investigation when the crew suspects Data of lying about the discovery of a wormhole.

Director: Les Landau

Writer: Joe Menosky

Riker is abducted by a xenophobic race of aliens during a first contact mission. They believe the Enterprise is a scout for an invasion.

Director: Cliff Bole

Writer: Joe Menosky, Ronald D. Moore, Marc Scott Zicree, David Bischoff, Michael Piller

Stardate: 44614.6. Geordi must work with the real Leah Brahms when she arrives on the Enterprise when a space-borne alien life form thinks the ship is its mother. Tensions rise when she learns that Geordi created a holographic version of her several months before in order to save the ship from danger.

Director: Winrich Kolbe

Writer: Maurice Hurley, Joe Menosky

Stardate: 44631.2. Troi faces a recurring nightmare when the Enterprise is caught in a rift in space. Soon, the crew begins to slip into insanity through dream deprivation.

Director: Les Landau

Writer: Jeri Taylor, Pamela Douglas

Stardate: 44664.5. Geordi and a former crew mate begin evolving into bizarre creatures when they return to a planet both of them were on during an Away Mission five years earlier.

Director: Winrich Kolbe

Writer: Brannon Braga

Stardate: 44704.2. An alien probe transforms Barclay from a shy, awkward character into an arrogant super-genius who is able to interface with the Enterprise's computer through the holodeck.

Director: Robert Legato

Writer: Joe Menosky

Stardate:44741.9. Q places Vash and the senior Enterprise crew in a recreation of Robin Hood and his merry men.

Director: Cliff Bole

Writer: Ira Steven Behr

Stardate: 44769.2. Picard is accused of treason when an explosion aboard the Enterprise is investigated by a ruthless and paranoid Starfleet Admiral.

Director: Jonathan Frakes

Writer: Jeri Taylor

Stardate: 44805.3. Lwaxana Troi falls in love with a man who must return home to commit suicide, as is customary for their race when they reach a certain age.

Director: Les Landau

Writer: Peter Allan Fields

Startdate: 44821.3. Dr. Crusher falls in love with a Trill Ambassador, until she discovers the Trill's symbiotic relationship.

Director: Marvin V. Rush

Writer: Michel Horvat

Stardate: 44885.5. While en route to Risa for shore leave, Geordi is abducted by the Romulans and brainwashed into becoming an assassin.

Director: David Livingston

Writer: René Echevarria

Stardate: 44932.3. Data experiences the complexities of love when a fellow crewmate becomes attracted to him.

Director: Patrick Stewart

Writer: Joe Menosky, Ronald D. Moore